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Nrrnn STATES W'ILLIAM S. DEPEVV, OF JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TOMILO HARRIS, OF SAME PLACE.

M ETAL PAINT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 582,046, dated May 4,1897. Application filed January 21,1897. $erial No. 620,121. (Nospecimens.)

To on whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM S. DEPEW, a citizen of the UnitedStates,residin g at Jam es town, in the county of Chautauqua and Stateof New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in MetalPaint, as will be fully set forth in this specification.

The object of my invention is to make a metal paint of such a naturethat when applied to a cast or mold and vulcanite rubber is applied toit the whole may be vulcanized into one solid body. The paint thus usedmay serve as a lining for rubber dental plates, or it may be applied tothe inside of molds for any hard-rubber article to ornament orstrengthen such parts as may be desired.

To make this metal paint, I take flour of aluminium, vulcanite rubber,and chloroform and mix together in such quantities of each as to form apaint that may be applied to a cast or mold, and when vulcanite rubberis laid on the paint the whole may be vulcanized to form a solid body.Instead of the chloroform benzin or any other fluid that Will out therubber and allow the paint to vulcanize with rubber may be used, but Iprefer the chloroform.

In place of aluminium I sometimes use the flour of gold or othernon-corrosive metals to make the metal paint.

Instead of the flour of metal any other form of the metal or metals thatwill mix with the other ingredients to form a mixture that wouldvulcanize with rubber might be used.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. A metal paint composed of vulcanite rub- .ber, aluminium andchloroform in such quanthe same is applied with rubber it may bevulcanized to form a solid mass, as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

WM. S. DEPEVV.

In presence of II. E. BUTLER, M. V. Dnrnw.

